New Central Library | Construction - Page 42

Innersoul1 · #**821** Posted **Mar 2, 2016, 4:16 PM**

The new library site is really cool. It's interesting to see the vision for all of the new spaces. I am so interested to see what the Great Reading Room is going to look like. It's really going to be brilliant with all of the windows.

Chadillaccc · #**822** Posted **Mar 4, 2016, 7:52 PM**

http://yycnewcentrallibrary.com/progress

Pavlov · #**823** Posted **Mar 4, 2016, 7:56 PM**

^ What is that ~7 story concrete core for? Stairs or elevator for the library?

ByeByeBaby · #**824** Posted **Mar 4, 2016, 11:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Reesonov

^ What is that ~7 story concrete core for? Stairs or elevator for the library?

From the new Library website, http://yycnewcentrallibrary.com/experience, it looks like there will be essentially two cores and two buildings in a way; the ~7 story core is at the NE corner of an administration building (the fences demarcate the footprint), while the core of the library proper is in the near centre of the image by the green dumpster. I wouldn't be surprised if the administration building is actually built with standard floor heights with the library at double height; this would enable the lovely open building in the renders, but still maintain the massive amount of space needed for admin and operations (about as much floorspace as for books if I remember the competition brief correctly).

Wooster · #**825** Posted **Mar 4, 2016, 11:24 PM**

This is going to be a tremendous addition to our city. Very excited.

suburbia · #**826** Posted **Mar 5, 2016, 4:58 AM**

At a couple points in history, I had suggested the idea of having an installation somewhere that spoke to the history of Calgary. I'm extremely pleased that the fourth floor of this building will have just that sort of place. Amazing building and thoughtful design. Can't wait!

Amazed they gave away the naming of the fantastic entry hall for a mere $1M though.

RyLucky · #**827** Posted **Mar 5, 2016, 4:19 PM**

Yes! Looks awesome.

Design-mind · #**828** Posted **Mar 13, 2016, 12:23 AM**

A great link between downtown and East Village

The Fisher Account · #**829** Posted **Mar 17, 2016, 12:05 AM**

Exterior LRT entrance structure being framed now at NCL:

Design-mind · #**830** Posted **Mar 20, 2016, 4:04 AM**

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Susan Veres ‏@SusanVeres Mar 18
.@EastVillageYYC look at that library! Wow.#nclinev

https://twitter.com/EastVillageYYC

Da_Master · #**831** Posted **Mar 24, 2016, 11:25 PM**

I was walking by our new library once every couple a days last week and made some pictures over that time, I it's time to share them before they become irrelevant

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